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Article: A new ball game with HDTV; experimental WRAL-HD broadcasts Duke football in third test of system. (high-definition television, WRAL-HD, Faleigh, North Carolina, Duke and North Carolina State football game)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- September 15, 1997
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Experimental WRAL-HD broadcasts Duke football in third test of system
Throughout the Duke-North Carolina State football game two Saturdays ago (Sept. 6), small crowds gathered on the concourse of Duke's Wallace Stadium in Durham, N.C., to watch the game in a different way.
WRAL-HD Raleigh, N.C., which broadcast the game in high-definition television, installed a 26-inch HDTV receiver where fans on their way to the hot dog and beer vendors couldn't miss it.
"It was very exciting," says WRAL-HD Chief Engineer Tom Beauchamp. "At any given moment, you had 15 or 20 people watching the picture and then going over and looking at the game and saying ...